Do you know of Bay View ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bay View. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Bay View.
Our sources for Bay View (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bay View other than they indicate that Bay View would be found somewhere in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Bay View ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Bay View.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Bay View.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 23 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Kewaunee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bay View [Kewaunee County].
- Kewaunee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bay View [Jefferson County].
- California
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bay View [Hillsborough County].
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bay View [Walton County].
- Maine
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bay View [York County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bay View [Baltimore City].
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bay View [Cecil County].
- Massachusetts
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bay View [Essex County].
- Michigan
- Antrim County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bay View [Antrim County].
- Emmet County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bay View [Emmet County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bay View.
- New Jersey
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bay View [Erie County].
- Kings County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bay View [Kings County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bay View [Monroe County].
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bay View [Suffolk County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Bay View.
- Nova Scotia
- Ohio
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bay View [Roane County].
- Washington
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bay View ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bay View:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bay View - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
The FIPS database contains an entry for Bay View.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 55/05500 (Place Name: Bay View)
County: Milwaukee (FIPS State/County: 55/079)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Bay View) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Milwaukee County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Milwaukee County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Bay View could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |